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Show I WHERE TO SEND HIM I l Albert Smith. 19 years old. son ofi wealthy parents hae been sentenced to cpend not less than forty -t we nor more i than eighty-five years in the Western I penitentiary at Pittsburg, Ia. The boy pleaded gu.lty to? thirteen charges of arson. There was, under the existing laws of ( !nns Ivants, nothing else to do thart to exile this bov to a pnson cell. If he serves the minimum term he will be an old man of l when he comes out. Kurely there must be something mentally men-tally st odds in the head of a boy Hke that who becomes a "firebug," as the prosecution termed him. It lim't at all likely that confinement In prison will straighten out that brain twist In the youth s head. It may be that nothing cuuld be done to reshape, or retrain, hm brain. Hut society doesn't seem to concern Itself much with what ran be done; other than removing the abnormal ab-normal brain from the highwaje society travrls. At some future dsy society may concern Itself fully as much about the "curing" of 111 minds as It now does of 111 bodies. I To ha hi y Judge In Pennsylvania, then, let us hope, will sentence boys like Albert to brain training; schools rather than to penitentiaries1 |